“Nearly.” “Not quite.” “Almost.” These descriptive words for the length of a Beagle&...
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319 words – Not one is “Bloodhound”
The Basset Hound’s AKC breed standard uses 319 words to describe the breed’s head, and not one of them is &#...
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The Author’s Great Danes
We confess that occasionally, it is a photograph that inspires a post. This image intrigued us for the lady’s fl...
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Only One AKC Breed Calls for This
There are many ways to be beautiful, and if there is one thing to be said about the 21st century, it’s that our pe...
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Can You See It?
Scroll down…. Keep going…. Almost there…. &nbs...
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How “Smart” Are You About Breed Standards?
From the Cambridge Dictionary: Smart: Having a clean, tidy, and stylish appearance. It might surprise some readers to le...
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“Heroes with Four Paws and Fur”
We owe them a debt that can never adequately be repaid, they, the four legged heroes of war and conflict. They are the W...
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Hunting for “Black Gold” with a Dog
Did you know: ♦ Truffles are 80% water, so not surprisingly, they are the fruiting bodies of an underground web of...
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The Roundabout Dogs
It started in Linköping, Sweden towards the end of 2006. A sculptured dog made of concrete created by Stina Opitz had b...
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You Know It When You See It
In 1964, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said that he could not use words to describe pornography but...
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When Breeding For Better Replaced the Breed
Preservation/heritage breeders always seek to improve their lines because as the old saw goes, “there is no perfec...
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And the Clincher: The Collie Head Tilt
Gorgeous men, gorgeous women, gorgeous dogs, and the clincher, the Collie head tilt. Ralph Lauren’s ad for Polo ma...
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The English Cream Golden Retriever
Do you know someone who says they have an “English Cream Golden Retriever?” How about a “rare white Eu...
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What Wouldn’t You Give to Have One?
Washing and nail trimming, exercise and scaling teeth. What wouldn’t you give to have help with your dogs, especia...
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The Decoy with a Pulse
Among many indigenous people in North America, particularly on the Northwest Coast, a “talking stick” was pa...
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The Most Elegant French Breed?
France has 8 million dogs of 330 different breeds, and half of them are hunting dogs. Those hunting dogs can be divided ...
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And Whitestock Service Man Went Along
Dog ownership by US presidents is a favorite “sidebar” topic of the media, but not every administration had ...
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Elizabeth Taylor & Her Dogs
Elizabeth Taylor had a full life, if not one foreign to most of us. She was a child actress in the early 1940s. She be...
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Named for Snow Capped Peaks
The genesis of the word, “spitz” as it applies to a dog is interesting. In German, it means “pointed,&...
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The Scottish Deerhound & a Pictish Stone
The monumental rocks of Stonehenge and Easter Island get all the attention, and understandably so, but slipping under th...
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